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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
A new Greenpeace report finds that the Koch Brothers, via their PAC, contributed $2.51 million since the beginning of the 2006 election cycle to lawmakers’ campaigns, more than any other oil and gas industry PAC. At the same time, the report says that “Koch Industries, Koch employees, and Koch family members” spent $37.9 million lobbying on [...]
In a 240-172 vote, the U.S. House on Thursday passed a bill that would give Americans who live in rural areas loans to make their homes more energy efficient. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,D-Calif.,, in a statement on the bill, said:
A new report by Physicians for Social Responsibility and Earthjustice confirms what many have been saying for years: Exposure to coal ash, the byproduct of coal-fired power, can cause cancer, lung disease, kidney disease, mental retardation and respiratory problems. The report also finds that pollutants from coal ash can leak into drinking water.
Gov. Chet Culver has written a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., calling for passage this year of a “strong” renewable energy standard. The letter was also signed by Republican Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri. The letter comes in the midst of a broad lobbying effort by renewable energy advocates to pass an [...]
A new report by the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit environmental group, finds that pollution from coal-fired power plants will result in the premature death of more than 13,000 people this year. The report, which is an update from similar studies conducted in 2000 and 2004, says that emissions from coal plants, like sulfur dioxide [...]
A coalition of 19 environmental groups sent a letter to President Barack Obama Thursday encouraging him to require that cars made after 2025 meet a 60 mile-per-gallon fuel efficiency standard. Natural Resources Defense Council Executive Director Peter Lehner, in a blog Thursday, said this goal is achievable.
In the three months after the Gulf oil spill, BP allocated three times more to its advertising budget than it did in the same three months last year, according to data released Thursday by a congressional committee. According to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is conducting an investigation into the Gulf oil spill, [...]
A new report by a coalition of environmental groups identifies 39 sites in 21 states where coal ash — the toxic byproduct of coal-fired power production — is being dumped. The groups say that the coal ash is “contaminating drinking water or surface water with arsenic and other heavy metals.”
Coal production in the United States dropped by 8.5 percent in 2009 compared to 2008, the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Energy Department, said Tuesday. In addition, coal consumption was decreased in 2009 by 10 percent, EIA said. Why the decrease in coal consumption? EIA suggests that it was part of a [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency is holding seven public hearings in August and September on its proposal to regulate the disposal of “coal ash,” a byproduct of coal-fired power production. Coal ash first became a part of the public discourse following a massive spill of the substance from a containment pond in Tennessee in 2008. A [...]
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